COULSON RESIGNS AS U.K. PRIME MINISTER’S SPOKESMAN AMID GROWING SCANDAL

Andy Coulson has resigned as British Prime Minister David Cameron’s director of communications amid new allegations that reporters at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World London tabloid were routinely hacking into the voicemail of celebrities and politicians while Coulson was the editor. Coulson has repeatedly denied that he was aware of the activity, despite claims [...]

BRITISH P.M. DEFENDS BESIEGED COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR

British Prime Minister David Cameron has spoken out in support of his director of communications, Andy Coulson, as authorities launch new probes into the extent of voicemail hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World London tabloid while Coulson was its editor. Coulson has continued to maintain that he knew nothing of the hacking. During [...]

ACTRESS HAS NEW EVIDENCE IN U.K.’S HACKERGATE SCANDAL

New evidence obtained by British actress Sienna Miller suggests that Ian Edmondson, a senior editor of Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday tabloid The News of the World, was aware that a private investigator was hacking into her voicemails. Miller is suing the newspaper for breach of privacy and harassment. The evidence was part of the records seized [...]

FOCUS OF U.K. HACKERGATE PROBE WON’T BE CHARGED

British prosecutors said Friday that they have insufficient evidence to bring charges against Andy Coulson, the former editor of Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday tabloid the News of the World and now Prime Minister David Cameron’s director of communications. Coulson had been accused by former reporters of the publication of encouraging them to use private detectives to [...]

HACKERGATE: WHO KNEW WHAT, WHEN?

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp appeared to be exposed to the possibility of millions of dollars in lawsuits Wednesday as a judge in London ordered that police turn over to the former assistant of publicist Max Clifford any evidence that they may have that her voice mail was tapped by reporters or investigators working for Murdoch’s [...]

MORE CONFESSIONS OF PHONE HACKING BY U.K. TABLOID REPORTERS

A former deputy features editor at Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloid News of the World has claimed that 13 former colleagues have “confessed” to hacking into the voicemails of celebrities and politicians with the knowledge of former editor Andy Coulson, currently Prime Minister David Cameron’s communications director, the London Financial Times reported today (Monday). The features [...]

FORMER TABLOID EXEC SAYS EDITOR LISTENED TO ILLEGAL PHONE HACKS

Britain’s hackergate scandal took a new twist today with the revelation that former editor Andy Coulson not only was aware that his News of the World reporters were listening to the voice mail of politicians and celebrities when he was editing the tabloid, but that he himself monitored them as well. According to Britain’s Guardian [...]

GORDON RAMSAY TURNS UP BURNERS ON HACKERGATE

Hells Kitchen TV chef Gordon Ramsay has joined the widening list of British celebrities and politicians linked to the telephone-hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday tabloid, News of the World. The London Independent reported today (Friday) that Ramsay’s name appeared on a list of celebrities, together with their phone numbers, account numbers and PIN codes, [...]

CAN MURDOCH KEEP A LID ON “HACKERGATE?”

Lawsuits recently filed by a small number of British politicians and celebrities who are known to have had their voicemail hacked by a reporter and private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday tabloid, News of the World, could “open the floodgates” for similar action by hundreds or even thousands of other individuals who may also [...]

BRITISH P.M. TO BE QUESTIONED ABOUT HACKERGATE

Harriet Harman, the acting leader of the British Labor Party, says she plans to question Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday over the appointment of Andy Coulson as his official spokesman. Coulson is the former editor of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid who resigned last year following revelations that one of its reporters [...]

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